Does it look like plastic to you? Well, it's for real. When I saw it I also thought that it's plastic till I got closer.
These days, it's just amazing how many tropical plants are being sold and grown indoors in this part of the earth.
This ... I'd very much like to keep it but this is actually a vine and it would be happier if grown in the ground or in a huge pot, indoors with much sun and a pergola to climb on.
I don't have such a space in my house so unfortunately, I can only enjoy this for a few days and I'd give it as a present to someone am about to visit later because they have a place to accommodate this beautiful plant and let it become the best version it could be. Looking at the bright side, I'd still keep seeing it as long as I give those people a visit.
While I was looking around for the right plant, I realized that a row of this stood in plants that are native here and some are also just tropical plants, probably imported. In my last post, I told you I believe these plants communicate with each other and I wonder whether they also bully each other like humans do.
I wonder whether the plants around it tease it for having its stems cut to look pretty, for its pot to be able to hold it and probably to let its flowers and buds stand out.
If there's one thing I notice about nature though I am aware that there are plants that are not compatible with each other and should not be planted close to each other, nature normally just live and let live.
I also wonder ... when the time comes and a plant translator would finally get invented, whether I'd ever hear plants speak ill of each other or do some mud throwing because another flower or plant has outdone them or their expectations and wants were not fulfilled like we, humans do.
Plants don't seem to complain against each other even when they accidentally get put beside a plant that could actually kill them. Are they better than we are? Who knows ...
I found a walnut growing beside a weakened apple tree and it must be the reason why the later seem to be getting sick and unhealthy. They made me realize one thing, they just both do their thing. The walnut is trying to grow to its fullest and so is the apple tree. Of course, it's up to me to dig one of them out and plant it elsewhere where it could do no other plant any harm and still fruit later.
It's the same thing with this parachute plant I suppose, whether it was bullied or appreciated for looking different and for being an alien for the plants that are native around here, it just also did its thing - grow and did everything to become its best version now and finally produce that beautiful flower up there.
If nature can manage to do just that the more that WE CAN besides, we're put to be gods and manage them, agree? .
Anyway, do you happen to know anything about this beautiful succulent? I'll throw you a 10% up if you get to guess which insect is the main pollinator of this one. You'd probably be surprised like I was when I first found out about it the first time I saw it in Bendorf Sayn many years ago.
I'll cast a 15% upvote if you explain how the pollination goes in that flower. That ... I will also have to explain to its future owner. I normally just throw the info away but these days, it's been mousy quiet since the price dropped. Hey peeps, this price drop, too ... shall pass (wink wink).
This content's 100% mine. I took that pic above with my smartphone.
edit : VI's down to 40%. I will have to pause and recharge but I'll be back to return your ups. Weird isn't it? Voting power seems easily drained these days. Is the reward pool almost drained?
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Thank you for posting dear @englishtchrivy.
Lovely artistic photographs to be found here and interesting information as well.......thank you.
Do vines have a larger root system across the board.
All the best mon ami.
Cheers.
thanks mon ami
not necessarily all vines
this one can have bigger than that of ... I could only think of an adult grape plant that's been allowed to keep climbing or a 5 year old adult passion plant, too. The trunk would be huge and thick, too
thanks for dropping by!
it's a bit complicated at the answer. because i never saw that..lol ..
I believe it is pollinated by flies. Flies crawl into the flower and are caught by downward facing hairs that prevent it from leaving. The fly, in turn, gets covered with pollen as it struggles to escape. The flower then dies and the hairs are weakened and the fly escapes.
and the flower falls off
and the fly finally escapes
flies indeed Ceci
Hi @englishtchrivy! I do not know the type of insect pollinates this plant. But I think I know the insect is trapped inside a chandelier. The trap closes. There is an insect spinning and floundering, collects pollen. Then the flower opens again and releases the insect outwards. I read that this is what happens in the natural environment.
as to how you describe what happens to the insect .. it's almost right .. as for what happens to the flower at that very same time ... it's different but it could also be a language barrier so let me give you a 5% up
You're right, it's really hard for me to convey it in English. :) thank!
you're welcome :)
I do not have answers and explanations. :) :) :)
It attracts flies with a fragrance of dying bee, so flies 'attack' it and .. and then flower trap the fly for some time so it can pollinate it!
flies it is indeed!
I cast you 10% cause the process isn't complete but thank you for providing the answer
how did you know?
I'm in love with cacti and other succulents! :D I suppose this is Ceropegia sandersonii.
One of mine Ceropegia:
Flowers are really incredible :)
beautiful!
that does look like a parachute taken in this angle :)
The flower is awesome @englishtchrivy, it kinda looks like an alien to me!
I had the same feeling the first time I saw it and the second time and till now hahah
Well, we can't have that, can we? PARTY! PARTY! PARTY! PARTY! PARTY! PARTY! PARTY! PARTY! PARTY! PARTY!
Loud enough for you? Seriously, I have no idea what this plant is. Don't know too much about plants. But I do know about photos, and yours is outstanding!
I will - totally in the dark - take a shot at the pollination question: Judging by the shape of the flower my guess is hummingbirds. Did I guess right?
hahahaha
yes that's more like it :D
better now
thank you
thanks for guessing, too but a hummingbird is a bird not an insect
it's an insect
one that would make you say ewwwwwwe ...
btw, the tulips are still trying to beat the cold
am not sure they'd be ready soon
but the crocuses are already showing their beauties off
Yes, I saw the crocuses. Wifey found a tulip radar live cam site online and is watching them like a hog. Looks like mid-April and now I have to go to the Bollenstreek, Haarlem, Noordwijk, and the Zaanse Schans. What the heck, I just work here.
hahaha
flowers are like hynopotions to women I suppose
well then, enjoy
do Khof you won't regret it just visit it in the morning
the first time hubby brought me there we got there at 11 am it was still too short a time to get to go around the whole place
very beautiful though
enjoy
amazing plant . never saw it before
so many here
I've seen it in a butterfly garden and some botanical garden around here , too
not sure where to find one in The Hague but in the butterfly garden am sponsoring they have it there a huge one !
Hi again! You have a really nice way to add entries to your blog, and awesome subjects as well, cheers!
I won't claim I'd knew anything about this plant before your post, but I actually thought that flies could be the pollinators for these umbrella flowers before I looked it up on google and found more about that beautiful flower. I also assumed it would use some kind of trap for the pollinators and I wasn't wrong. I found this useful info and learned that these flowers are completely criminal scammers lol... they attract a certain type of flies that are looking for dead(ish) honeybees scent (an "alarm liquid" they release when in danger) on flowers and do they only not have any dead bees nor food to give the flies, they even trap a starving flie for as much as 24 hrs! They release them and are even able to attract the flies again in an endless cycle! This method actually has a name, "deceptive pollination" and I'll quote a text from the source, in case you don't feel the urge to read the full article outside steemit. Cheers and have a great week everybody!
The particular pollinators for these parachute flowers (ceropegia sandersonii) are the desmometopa flies, insects as large as 2 millimeters.